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Monday, January 19, 2015

BREAKING: Gunshots Fired Around Vice President Joe Biden's Home VIDEO

WASHINGTON (DC) – CBS News has learned from the Secret Service that
shots were fired outside Vice President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware
Saturday night.

The house was said to be unoccupied at the time and there were no injuries. The shooting occurred shortly before 8:30
“on a public road outside the established security perimeter,” a Secret
Service official told CNN. Biden’s home is reportedly “several hundred
yards away from the main road where shots were fired” according to the
report.

The Secret Service told CBS News they are investigating
the incident, but a spokesman confirmed that a car drove by and shots
were fired.

A spokesman told CNN that the shots were heard by a
Secret Service agent at the scene and a car was seen driving off at a
high rate of speed.

There is no word whether the shooting was targeted or random.

Stay with CBS DC for updates on this developing situation.

(CNN)-
On Saturday night a vehicle drove near Vice President Joe Biden’s
residence in Delaware and fired multiple gun shots, but the vice
president and his wife, Jill, were not home at the time, Secret Service
spokesman Robert Hoback told CNN.

The incident occurred around 8:25 p.m.

“A
vehicle drove by the vice president’s residence at a high rate of speed
and fired multiple gun shots. This occurred on a public road outside
the established security perimeter. The shots were heard by Secret
Service personnel posted at the residence and a vehicle was observed by
an agent leaving the scene at a high rate of speed,” Hoback said.

The
vice president was expected to spend the weekend in Delaware. A
spokesperson for Biden says the vice president and his wife were briefed
on the incident on Saturday night.

Thorough searches will be
conducted on the outside of Biden’s residence and nearby residences to
see if any rounds hit any structure, a Secret Service official
separately told CNN. The vice president’s residence is several hundred
yards away from the main road from where the shots were fired.

New Castle Delaware County Police are working with the Secret Service to investigate the incident.

“While
the incident scene was being searched at approximately [9 p.m.], an
individual in a vehicle attempted to pass a New Castle County police
officer who was securing the outer perimeter of the area. As a result of
the interaction with the officer, this individual was arrested for
resisting arrest,” Hoback said.

Right now that person is not tied to the incident.

A Secret Service official told CNN that individual will be questioned regarding the shooting incident to see if he was involved.

(NYTimes)
Washington — Several gunshots were fired out of a vehicle speeding by
the home of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Greenville, Del., on
Saturday night, according to federal law enforcement officials.

Neither the vice president nor his wife were home at the time of the shooting, which occurred around 8:25 p.m., officials said.

Secret Service and the local police were unable to catch the vehicle as it raced away.

It
was not clear whether any of the shots hit Mr. Biden’s residence, or
even if they were aimed directly at the home, which sits roughly 300
yards back from the road, officials said.

Secret Service agents
were beginning to canvass the home looking for bullet marks on Sunday
morning. There was no immediate explanation for a possible motive.

“The
Secret Service is working closely with the New Castle County Police on
investigating this incident,” said Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the
Secret Service.

Less than an hour after the shooting, a man in a
vehicle tried to drive past a police officer who was securing the area
around the vice president’s home. The man resisted arrest, officials
said, but was taken into custody.

A test for gunpowder residue
performed on the man’s hands was negative, according to a law
enforcement official. The man will be “questioned regarding the shooting
incident last night to determine if he was involved in any way,” the
official said.

According to the New York Times, New Castle County police and Secret Service agents were unable to catch the shooter as he or she sped away.

During the subsequent investigation, a car reportedly sped past agents and was pulled over.

The driver's hands tested negative for gunpowder residue.

'The
Secret Service is working closely with the New Castle County Police on
investigating this incident,' Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret
Service, told the Times.

Biden's
neighborhood includes stately stone-and-brick homes along a curving
two-lane road that winds through rolling hills. Nestled in a heavily
wooded area, the vice president's home is not visible from the main
road. A small cottage, occupied by the Secret Service, sits on the
property near a gate in front of the driveway that is blocked off by
Secret Service vehicles and personnel.

Police
said there was a report of shots fired in the nearby area of Hoopes
Reservoir, just northwest of the Biden home. The reservoir is a source
of fresh water for Wilmington.

Biden's
office said the vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, were briefed
Saturday night, as was President Barack Obama. Biden's office referred
all other questions to the Secret Service.

On Sunday
afternoon, half a dozen sport utility vehicles were parked near the
entrance of the Bidens' property, providing a heavy security presence in
the area. Shortly before 2 p.m., a motorcade of several more SUVs
arrived at the house. It was unclear whether the vice president was in
any of the vehicles.